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February

Got 11 artichokes left from the 20 we for at Jags. Today got 6 large red flesh dragonfruits.

Made pumpkin steamed pudding yesterday with fairytale. We had one half liter of boiled down syrup, and 1 equal amount of flesh left from the 20 lb pumpkin. We tried to blend the flesh and it needed to have the syrup added back into it. So I used 3/4 of it in the steam pudding recipe. Jam ewas figs, dates, pecans simmered for a bit. Used pumpkin spices in the cakre. Result it very tasty. A bit like carrot cakre. Only used a few tbsp datre syrup as sweetener. Threw some brandy fruit inside. Which overall it tasted !ike a Christmas cakre. Really good. R made white brandy sauce. Soon are will make custard. Only have half the cake left now. R made chocolate truffles. Yellow kiwi centre with candy tamngerine peel, coated in dark chocolate, coated with pecans, coated with milk chocolate. 4 layers. Made special kiwi jam from organic fruit and turned some into truffle candy filling. Kiwi tNgerine kiwi but cluster Still eating artichokes for lunch.

Good shopping day. R went to buy meat, he got beef for $18 to make burgers all month. He got a fillet of salmon for $18. And chicken wings for $3/lb. The cream prices raised quite a bit. Butter is crazy expensive. He got a $6 half lb of grass fed butter. Went to sweet potato, they have pastry flour, house btranf, for $5/kg. Nofrills has a cream sale, $2.79 for 10% one litre, and same price for half litres of whip cream and 18%. We got a couple whipping creams, and one each 18 and 10. They have a good tea of India, $9 for a big box. Might buy Latest. Now we are subsistiing on $3.50 Tetley from nations. Bulb barn took aeway oiur tea last month. Tea crisis! Went to JAG's. Got a spiral ham for $20. Says it coasts $50-60 normally. Its best before Feb 18. Got 4 pastries =$3. Got natrel 4 l $3. Rice $2 Ginger $1 =$31 Not sure why its 31 when it adds up to $29. He gave us 2 free Lindy bars already opened.

In February I'd like to have : 
Italian sausage dinner - potatoes, wine carrots
Pecan pumpkin steam pudding with dates- triple layer yellow cake
Pizza x2 - pepperoni
Bon truffle cheese
Gtravlax salmon
Seafood pancake - with potato
Lamb - curry
Dark chocolate covered pumpkin seed truffles- marzipan

Recipes for fairytale pumkin: 
Juiced
Steam pudding
Mixed with mascarpone or fresh cheese, 
soaked ladyfingers tiramisu
Fresh cheese, pork, pumpkin stuffed wonton


Probably going to get from Jagger's:
Truffle mustard
Truffle salt
Truffle chocolate
Riesling pear jam